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>**July 18, 1994: Anti-Jewish Bombing in Buenos Aires Is Blamed on Hezbollah and Iran Despite Lack of Proof** [A jewish community center](https://web.archive.org/web/20080727000810/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3179861.stm) called AMIA in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is destroyed in a blast. The seven-story building is reduced to rubble and eighty-five people are killed. Argentinean authorities, as well as the United States and Israel, are quick to blame Hezbollah and its backer, Iran. They accuse an Iranian diplomat of having provided a van packed with explosives to a Hezbollah suicide bomber.
>>**Problems with Investigation** [But the investigation becomes the subject of intense controversy.](https://web.archive.org/web/20150912114717/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3289359.stm) Argentine President Nestor Kirchner will later call it “a national disgrace.” In 2003, it will be revealed that the investigative judge offered an apparent bribe to the man accused of selling the van used in the attack in exchange for his testimony against local police officers charged with complicity in the bombing. That judge will later be impeached and removed from office and [the case will collapse.](https://web.archive.org/web/20150912114734/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4743927.stm)

>>**Forensic Evidence** Critics will also argue that the forensic evidence suggests that the bomb exploded inside the building, rather than in the street. This will be the conclusion reached by Charles Hunter, an explosives expert with the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) who was part of the investigation. Hunter will quickly identify “major discrepancies” between the car-bomb thesis and the blast pattern recorded in photos. A report drafted two weeks later will note that, in the wake of the bombing, merchandise in a store immediately to the right of AMIA was tightly packed against its front windows and merchandise in another shop had been blown out onto the street—suggesting that the blast came from inside rather than outside. Hunter will also say he does not understand how the building across the street could still be standing if the bomb had exploded in front of AMIA. Investigators will find no conclusive evidence against any Iranian diplomat. The US ambassador to Argentina at the time, James Cheek, will comment in [a 2008 article](https://web.archive.org/web/20091121033159/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080204/porter): “To my knowledge, there was never any real evidence of [Iranian responsibility]. They never came up with anything.” Nevertheless, in November 2007, Argentina, with strong support from the US and Israel, will [successfully persuade](https://web.archive.org/web/20081026200438/http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/4638/125/) Interpol to issue arrest warrants against several Iranian officials and one Lebanese Hezbollah militant.

>**February 6, 2000: Apparent Mossad Attempt to Infiltrate Al-Qaeda Thwarted** India’s largest Newsweekly [reports](https://web.archive.org/web/20030618022813/http://www.the-week.com/20feb06/events2.htm) that it appears a recent Mossad attempt to infiltrate al-Qaeda failed when undercover agents were stopped on their way to Bangladesh by Indian customs officials. These 11 men appeared to be from Afghanistan, but had Israeli passports. One expert states, “It is not unlikely for Mossad to recruit 11 Afghans in Iran and grant them Israeli citizenship to penetrate a network such as bin Laden’s. They would begin by infiltrating them into an Islamic radical group in an unlikely place like Bangladesh.”

>**September 10, 2001: Army School Peacekeeping Report Says Mossad Can Target US Forces with False Flag Attacks** A group of second-year students at the Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) produces a 68-page plan for sending peacekeepers to Israel in the event that the Israelis and Palestinians agree to a peace plan and the creation of a Palestinian state. Though the cover of the report indicates that the report has been written for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Maj. Chris Garver, a Fort Leavenworth spokesman, says that it was only an academic exercise. An article about the report appears in the Washington Times on September 10, 2001. ***The report refers to Israel’s armed forces as a “500-pound gorilla in Israel” that is “well armed and trained” and is “known to disregard international law to accomplish mission.”*** Of the Mossad, the report says: “Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. ***Has capability to target US forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.”*** It describes Palestinian youths as “loose cannons; under no control, sometimes violent.” [The SAMS officers write](https://web.archive.org/web/20120313091113/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2001/sep/10/20010910-025319-6906r/) that US goals for the first 30 days of such a mission would be to “create conditions for development of Palestinian State and security of Israel”; ensure “equal distribution of contract value or equivalent aid” that would help legitimize the peacekeeping force and stimulate economic growth; “promote US investment in Palestine”; “encourage reconciliation between entities based on acceptance of new national identities”; and “build lasting relationship based on new legal borders and not religious-territorial claims.”

>**October 10, 2001: Two Israelis Are Detained in Mexican Legislature Building after Behaving Suspiciously and Found To Be Carrying Arms** Two Israelis, Salvador Gersson Smike, 34, and Sar Ben Zui, 27, [are arrested](https://www.rense.com/general17/mexbomb.htm) in the Mexican Congress Building in Mexico City. Smike is carrying a plastic 9 mm sophisticated Glock 9 mm pistol tucked into his underwear in his lower back. Glock pistols are made with a special plastic material and are very easy to smuggle. He also has with him a briefcase reported to contain 58 bullets, bomb-making materials, three detonators, and nine grenades. The two were apprehended after ex-sugarcane workers, who were waiting for a congressional hearing, saw the two Israelis behaving strangely at around 4:00 p.m. They were reportedly photographing the workers below the belt. When the workers demanded that the two men identify themselves, the Israelis said they were press photographers. The workers dismissed their claims, overcame them, and then discovered they were armed with pistols and other high caliber arms. The two men had apparently also been seen the day before taking pictures. Security guards soon arrived, disarmed the men, and took them to the security office. At around 6:00 p.m., it is learned that the two men are Israelis and that one of them, Salvador Gersson, is a former colonel of the Israeli Special Forces. Soon after, a man claiming to be a supervisor from the company, Desarrollo de Sistemas de Seguridad Privada (Private Security Systems Development), says the two men are employees at the firm and that they were taking pictures because they are “vacationing.” The journalists who are present scoff at the claim. [After October 13, no additional information is reported about the incident.](https://www.rense.com/general17/verbatimtranslations.htm)

>**March 2005: Israel Honors People Involved in Lavon Affair** Israel [officially honors](https://web.archive.org/web/20070817014423/http://www.hsje.org/israel_honors_9_egyptian_spies.htm) the nine Egyptian jews who were involved in the “Lavon Affair” bombings in Egypt (see July 1954) Israeli President Moshe Katzav, presiding over the 2005 ceremony honoring the bombers in Jerusalem, says that the Israeli government has “decided now to express our respect for these heroes.” In 1954, in an effort to damage Egypt’s relationship with the West, Israeli agents bombed sites frequented by foreigners in Cairo and Alexandria with hopes that the attacks would be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood. But the operation unraveled when one of the bombs being planted went off prematurely.
 
>[The Lavon Affair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair) refers to a failed Israeli covert operation, code named Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the Summer of 1954. As part of the false flag operation, a group of Egyptian jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence to plant bombs inside Egyptian, American and British-owned civilian targets, cinemas, libraries and American educational centers. The bombs were timed to detonate several hours after closing time. The attacks were to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Communists, “unspecified malcontents” or “local nationalists” with the aim of creating a climate of sufficient violence and instability to induce the British government to retain its occupying troops in Egypt’s Suez Canal zone

>**Early June 2005: US Intelligence Find Evidence of Mossad or CIA Support For Insurgents in Iraq** [US Intelligence officers report](https://web.archive.org/web/20051103062551/http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050603-021838-6491r.htm) that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 02 pistols that have no serial numbers. The numbers have not been removed; the guns came off a production line with no number. “Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as US authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the illegitimacy of the resistance.”

>**November 9, 2005: Three Simultaneous Suicide Bombings in Jordan; Israeli Tourists Evacuated in Advance** Three hotels in Amman, Jordan are simultaneously bombed. Sixty people, including three bombers, are killed and 115 others are injured. [The explosions](https://web.archive.org/web/20080527142122/http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/12/jordan.blasts/index.html) take place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, the Radisson SAS Hotel, and the Days Inn, which are hotels often frequented by Western military contractors and diplomats. [The bomb](https://web.archive.org/web/20080922200611/http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/14/jordan.blasts/index.html) at the Radisson explodes in a ballroom where a wedding reception is taking place. The Jordanian government soon announces that the group Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which is supposedly led by the Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, took credit for the attack in an Internet statement. Within days, an Iraqi woman accused of being a failed fourth suicide bomber confesses to participating in the attack on Jordanian television. CNN notes that “Many people were expressing doubt [whether the woman] really was involved…” Two leading Palestinian security officials - West Bank military intelligence chief Maj Gen. Bashir Nafeh and his aide Col. Abel Allun - [are among those killed](https://web.archive.org/web/20060314202451/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4424420.stm). The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports, “The Radisson is known to be popular with Israeli tourists,” yet [no Israelis were killed](https://web.archive.org/web/20150929035037/http://www.haaretz.com/news/king-abdullah-cancels-trip-to-israel-after-amman-triple-suicide-bombing-1.173674) in the bombings. “Hours before the bombings, many Israelis were evacuated from the Radisson… apparently due to a specific security alert.” (The Haaretz report about this is retracted and then later reinstated.) [The Los Angeles Times](https://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/10/world/fg-bombings10) also notes that Haaretz report and adds that Amos N. Guiora, a former leader of the Israel Defense Forces, told the Times that “sources in Israel had also told him about the pre-attack evacuations. “It means there was excellent intelligence that this thing was going to happen.… The question that needs to be answered is why weren’t the Jordanians working at the hotel similarly removed?” The deaths of the Palestinian intelligence officials and warning to Israeli tourists cause some, especially in the Muslim world, to [claim](https://web.archive.org/web/20130220113538/http://blog.washingtonpost.com/worldopinionroundup/2005/11/amman_bombing_spinning_a_consp.html) that the attacks were an Israeli false flag operation.